33 BOOKS: The Living with Nature Center
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Dr Abe V Rotor
Organize your home library, retrieve your books and dust them off from the selves, share them with the children and grownups as well. Books make a fine library and part of a family museum. Open them to your community and local schools, link them with the computer. Here are some thirty-three books I have made available for students and guests who would come now and then for their research, thesis, assignments - or simply curious to scan a page or two - and rekindle interest in books.
"Books, the epics of Homer, stories of the Grimm Brothers, One-thousand-and-one Nights of Scheherazade, distilled from oral literature passed through generations to our present time.
Books, written ahead of their time - Galileo's astronomy, Darwin's evolution, Martin Luther's Protestantism ignited dis-pleasure of the Church.
Books, bedtime stories, baby's introduction to the world, legends and fantasies that take young ones to the land of make believe.
Books, the record of ultimate scholarship, are the epitome of the greatest minds in thesis and dissertation, theories and principles.
Books, the precursor of the Internet, the framework of the i-Pod, Tablet, Galaxy, and other gadgets that man becomes virtually a walking encyclopedia." - AV Rotor, Books the Greatest Treasure of Mankind
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." – Carl Sagan
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.” ― Nora Ephron
"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." – Charles Baudelaire
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ― Harper Lee
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”― Ernest Hemingway
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” ― René Descartes
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Cicero
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." ― E.B. White
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” ― Emma Thompson
“I guess there are never enough books.” ―
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.” ― Audrey Hepburn
“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.” ― Paul Rand
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen
“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.” ― Benedict Cumberbatch
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“One must always be careful of books... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” – Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell, 1984
